Scrambled eggs from powder
 

Hi,

since I am a Plat I try to stay within the Marriott group for my travel within the US. Usually stay at RI and FFI properties because they are closest to where I need to be.

What's bothering me is that disgusting egg powder being used for the buffet breakfast scrambled eggs at most properties. Only "most" - I was served scrambled eggs made from actual eggs at the Chicago Downtown North RI a few weeks ago (THANK YOU). I understand egg powder is cheaper and essentially non-perishable but it is so incredibly disgusting that I have resorted to eating granola yoghurt only, which admittedly is probably the healthier choice anyhow :rolleyes: But I still like my scrambled eggs in the mornings.

Rant finished, now the questions:

- I have never stayed at Townhill or Springhill Suites - do they make their scrambled eggs with powder or real eggs?

- Is anyone else bothered by this?

people have shared similar opinions in this thread
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marri...ffet-eggs.html

Free often doesn't equate to good.

I don't eat egg yolks, but I'm told that a little ketchup or tabasco works wonders.

Thanks. Did a search before but obviously with wrong key words

Sorry, I don't smoke or chew.

I think he might have meant "tabasco" :p

Yup, darn autocorrect. Fixed it. Thanks.

Most of the lower end tier hotels use powder for their scrambled eggs, or from liquid eggs. And yes I avoid them for the same reasons.

However, many of them also have the make-your-own breakfast sandwich bar, with the pre-made eggs that are slightly more palatable.

The yolk is the best part! Ketchup and tabasco do work wonders

Only when they don't have hard-boiled eggs. Fairfields generally do, not sure about the other brands (where the hot eggs may be suspicious).

It's is so much harder to make hard-boiled eggs from powdered eggs or liquid eggs! :) But scrambled eggs or omelets, they're made from mixed up eggs so they're all too easy to make from powdered or liquid eggs.

I'm with OP 100%. Stay often in the Ren Worthington in Ft. Worth, which IMO is a great hotel and am regularly amazed that on one hand they can have all of these wonderful snacks, sodas, cheeses, etc., and on the other serve watery powdered eggs in the morning. It just grosses me out. Maybe the "appetite reduction factor" is the hidden purpose.

I would just live with the fact that you are staying at a lower end property and this is what you receive. I don't think Hampton Inn or Hyatt House do much better.

You get what you pay for. You may, of course, order from the menu and specify what you want the eggs made with. Or go to a place outside the hotel.

Just like bottom shelf booze for free in airline lounges.

How do you know these are "powdered" eggs? At most low-end chain properties (this would include FF, SHS and competitors like Hampton, Holiday Inn Express etc.) the eggs are usually these discs either served plain or wrapped around a cheese or meat filling (a.k.a. "omelette") that you serve yourself with tongs. These are obviously pre-made and are just heated on-site rather than cooked as most of the low-end properties do not have a full food prep facility, much less a cook.

Even at higher end properties with a full kitchen, the scrambled eggs may well be cooked on site but will be from a pre-mix from a carton. This is almost universal in the industry as the pre-mix egg solution has a longer shelf life both before and after cooking and won't go bad on a buffet as quickly. You should peruse the Sysco catalog for all kinds of egg options for institutional kitchens.

If you want your eggs freshly cracked from a shell, order them fried (as I do ;) ).

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The discs beat the powdered egg soup any day.